egyptians vote in the final stage of the referendum on the islamist drafted constitution that sparked violent protests and fierce clashes but many doubt that ballot results will quell the month long term or. moscow is one step closer to banning all adoptions of russian children by americans triggered by an increasing number of abuse cases and even some deaths the bill has caused a storm of reaction in russia. and all you don't want for christmas especially if something fever gathers pace with the risk ending up in the bin very next day.

and online twenty four seven year with carrie johnson it's a decisive day for egypt people vote on the draft constitution that split the nation and triggered a month long protests the second and final leg of the referendum was preceded by a fresh outbreak of violence in egypt second largest city of alexandria a cairo based journalist true explains what's expected from the vote and whether the outcome is likely to end the turmoil. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates have headed to the polling stations today to vote in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was about to provide as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who are for the constitution very few against the

constitution this happened on islam is staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and implementation of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they are cars and buses some saying these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with takeouts leaving seventy seven injured so this obviously comes on the after several instances of violence is in alexandria and entire a few weeks ago in cairo and from the presidential palace rival groups clashed leaving ten dead in terms what people are saying here on the streets the country is divided so if you're against the constitution say would only enforce the president to a dictatorship but it lacks a key social economic right it was drafted by islamist dominated assembly so it's for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy after the concert has drawn so they say we'll have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the votes of people voted in fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution analysts believe that this will be another yes vote this is largely

because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the presidential or in the presidential elections even many to believe that this will in fact be yes but the opposition forces for that part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging rights groups did did document several cases of electoral violations including supervised polling stations leading both rights groups on the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying is actually not invoiced the issue digital supervision remains a point of contention here as thousands of judges continue to boycott the referendum really will have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely people expect by their own rest in the streets either way that both sides refuse to back down. and bell is of course following developments in egypt you can see her latest updates

via our twitter feed that's r t underscore com and get interactive. now earlier i spoke to an independent political analyst down glazebrook who explained why the opposition's key request for a delay in the referendum was never an option for the president and the muslim brotherhood breo main problem with this referendum is that is being rushed through before egyptians are really had a chance to take on board the momentous are people of the last year what it signifies and also before they've had a chance to really understand what the policies of the muslim brotherhood actually are so this is all being rushed through has been rushed through deliberately before people had a chance to take stock and before the opposition had a chance to organize themselves as well not to get this was it was a pretty unprecedented the biggest mass movement in egypt in fifty years what we saw the streets last year in egypt and so the opposition have not really had a chance to you on the holy organize themselves through to present

a clear program out of the electorate and so on the muslim brotherhood of course on the other hand are organized and have been allowed actually to organize in certain spheres of egyptian right for several decades or more expert analysis of the situation in egypt as well as the timeline of recent protests and dramatic videos always available on our web site outs r.t. dot com. five hundred dollars that's the cost a u.s. marine sergeant will pay for your innate on the bodies of dead afghan soldiers he was demoted and will see his pay docked after admitting to desecration critical activist david swanson says the sentence is too lenient and highlights how the u.s. military has lost touch with reality in afghanistan. it's absurdly low it's insultingly low but so is the charge and i mean this is someone guilty of creating corpses of killing human beings who is then prosecuted for having desecrated them after the fact this is this is the problem with our culture of violence that we

that we think we're going to civilized war that if we didn't cut off the fingers and you're an aid on the bodies then it would be ok so we have a long ways to go to get into to a better legal as well as moral understanding because americans like to think that their government must have some justification for what it does it builds the idea that it is folk to occupy the nations of other people we had an incident this week in the united states of other former soldier attacking a mosque to seek revenge for u.s. soldiers who had lost their lives of broad without stopping to understand that they were occupying someone else's country so we have this rule in hatred for muslims for afghans for pakistanis in the united states it is it is the doing of the u.s. government and its occupations and its drone wars but the longer they go on the

more the ill will builds both at home and of course in the nation's been occupied and being subjected to drone strikes well the case has once again highlighted concerns over america's continuing presence in afghanistan but president obama says he's hoping to turn a page on a decade of war after naming senator john kerry as the next secretary of state defense analyst ivan eland leaves karens appointments could lead to a less aggressive in u.s. foreign policy. we're in fiscal crisis here and i think we're going to have to retract the clause of the empire as big and i think no nothing was ever done about that maybe john kerry will change he probably won't change dramatically because i think united states is into the. perception of running the world and i just don't think we can do it financially and i don't even think it's desirable but i think you know if we went into libya we went into we put more troops in afghanistan those were bad moves in my opinion so i think you may have

a more dovish line coming from kerry than you did from hillary clinton whether you're watching r t and still ahead for you the problems continue to mount for greece is now one of the country's main looking for ways to stay afloat after posting massive losses who take a closer look why plus. look in my political career i was minister of regional corporation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of interior and minister of justice even held this. israel prepares for elections amid increasing concerns over the country's political processes. as the clocks countdown to christmas so many people will be making a last minute dash to the shops to think twice before purchasing that novelty present as the recipient might not be that grateful. explains from the hustle and bustle of

london. but most of us know the problem for someone celebrating off the best twentieth christmas buying a present can be perplexing there's nothing they need or don't own already to the invention of your humorous christmas present for example the christmas jumper what happens to the presents the day off the christmas i've been given a christmas present every christmas and carried him away on boxing day. for me give it away because i just about myself feel better and then get rid of them to give me an example of a useless christmas present you may have to say. i was given a call from work. you probably can't put it on take any other. a mug we overlay woman in a bikini when you pull the hot water and she becomes like it the bikini peels off what was that a knitted coat hanger and this is kind of been given like chunks of christmas stuff that you just throw away on boxing day yes what was it going to be to have

a pretty heavily yeah well you just bought some junk to christmas again i've just bought some junk for christmas and. they think it's not actually a story christmas presents away a lot we just came from the strike and so we had a christmas before we came and so i overstuff all the scripts that we got given. straight into the bin junk for christmas no this present sometimes yes you carry them laughs absolutely not but you read them. usually i just give them to my sister i have actually i've received coloring crayons a few years ago so they didn't last long in the. other end and i don't think i did anyway. so worried about the state of the planet say that the problem nowadays is that the last of the items on sale don't have any purpose whatsoever the design to squeeze a loss out to the recipient and then been done boxing day so this year feel free to

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this is more international news stories for you now a bill that prohibiting u.s. citizens from adopting russian children has been passed by the lower house of parliament in moscow almost unanimous the vote comes after a series of child abuse cases a broad gun a church account looks at the stories which led to the latest measures. the adoption agreement that russia and the us signed in of them here was designed to

provide mechanisms of oversight for russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children still there are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states but does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their gifts that are just surviving the case of alan who was adopted from russia and she was placed in the home of the head of file she was discovered because of a. sting which she too was disc students such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption

agency that placed her there would come back and check on her and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judges of shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year olds in my jacket who was acquitted after she forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born with annual craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica bigley received probation after she went on a popular t.v. show and bragged of how she disciplined her adopted russian child by systematically

cramming hot sauce into his mouth and putting him under a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washing point maxine the bio of who was allegedly abused by his foster parents according florida quoted them at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation of u.s. adoptions seems even more dire the u.s. accounts for around a third of all foreign adoptions in russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year but the latest developments over whether that good were ten contests. if there is no flight a chance word or friend to find a happy home they should be given that chance is undoubted but just as indisputable seems they are given that there has to be more oversight over the well being of these children because with the way things are now dozens of adopted children could be subject to abuse right at this moment and we may never find out in washington i'm going to. but i had to r.t. don't come for more news including how one russian has made it onto a list of the world's most dangerous people you know the story of how the song was

named along with a mexican drug lord and syria's president assad as a dangerous threat to the u.s. . also online today reports on one devoted can't use the power of the media to pay tribute to his beloved one a good friend and more. all four of greece's largest banks are queuing up for a bailout but he stopped reporting huge losses this year together they'll need around twenty seven billion euros worth of loans to stay afloat but greece has been relying on international bailout funds since twenty ten and there's economist

dimitris says it's ordinary greeks who are bearing the brunt of the bank's losses. the lawns on which. this recapitalization. priests are coming from the troika the e.u. the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. and they are going to be aid they're going to be part of the. national debt which is going to be paid by the greek taxpayer and forty thousand small businesses closing this year alone three hundred. thousand of job losses there's talk of unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really. on the one hand or straight into you on the other hand bank inability to provide liquidity for the market greece and maybe preparing for another year of

painful cuts and tax hikes but for why the outlook on where the global economy stands at the end of twenty twelve you can tune in to the kaiser report next hour here on r.t. . and five years since the beginning of the global financial collapse governments are eating their own debt violent central banks are smoking their own belly button led an analyst still don't know whether we have deflation inflation hyperinflation pop since you haven't. we have crazy felician that we're going to try to determine this will get a little bit closer to whether we have inflation deflation hyperinflation in the fires my dad served the fear money fairy queen the. third.

now to some other international news in brief this hour. hundreds of students have again lisa. here and a half a protest leaders of the student movement say they're fed up with no standard private university students won a major victory two days ago when chile's justice minister who has ties to one of the colleges was forced to resign over a corruption scandal. principal testified crashed in india's capital leaving several people injured demonstrators are calling for the death penalty to be handed down to six men accused of gang rape the brutal beating of a twenty three year old student the indian government is seeking life in prison for the sentence. above two hundred angry people have stormed the police station in southern pakistan killing a man accused of burning a copy of the koran the man was arrested on friday after locals reported him to police claiming he burned the holy book in a mosque with no police detained thirty people for suspected involvement in the

attack and suspended seven officers for failing to provide security for israel the new year will be marked by an election for the new parliament happening earlier than planned for many frequent voting is the embodiment of democracy but the rapid turnaround of ministers and governments is leading to cause for an overhaul of the entire political system ati's put us there reports. call us money as you know him but in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigrant under the option and minister of justice i have even held this post simul tenuously it doesn't mean i'm talented it just shows that the system is so messed up they be toyed. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's a new israeli government almost two years and

a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as. a young citizen ghost elections so many times you started to lose this sense that this is a democracy not been nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from eighty to sixty four percent whether. there were clear when i was eventually as it was but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows whatever someone tries to talk about it there. similar to the motions our prime minister says he must call for elections because he can't pass the budget he's scared that his coalition members may bring down his

government and we will act as if that's normal we really say there's no problem with our system. critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. we're going to show more that the system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox ultra rightists right wing extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's minor roots when crissy the minority rules over the majority a lot of another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan i on. the bench and out of today a minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision and a long term planning he's no longer there. but many of these people want is a complete overhaul of the system what parliamentary elections slated for early next

year israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but they told us is running thin with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with his government's performance points here our team tel aviv. are the biggest stories that were missed in twenty twelve and a lot to look forward to next year in breaking set that's next stay with us. i was. the was. in the middle of russia is no way

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to his dances he tells the stories about his motherland. thank you laws in a repeat to now has a one thousand strong reindeer herd when the enemy only saw the light can and most around brood is gathered turns and moved to another posture they travel hundreds of kilometers in winter women and children for them. but the two families have less of a chance to come across each other they belong to different worlds even though their songs are similar.

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breaking the sad because we see today maybe the very last day here on planet earth that is according to crackpot interpretations of the mayan calendar so and owner of this i've kept my final show for your doomsday pleasure including a brand new interview with director oliver stone and historian peter close there a look at what creepy surveillance we won't have to deal with anymore since the fan of the world and all and then i'll be explaining what the mayans actually meant and why won't be here come tomorrow so let's break the set. was the largest producer of you've never seen anything like this on television. so last week i had the great pleasure of having academy award winning director oliver stone and historian peter because next on the show it was here to talk about their new showtime series and book called the untold of his.